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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040815
Author:Patrick Skene Catling

Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop

by Emma Larkin

John Murray, pounds 15.99, 232 pp

pounds 13.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

THE AUTHOR of Secret Histories has a secret history of her own. Emma Larkin is the pseudonym of a journalist who was born and brought up somewhere in Asia, studied the Burmese language at London's School of Oriental and African Studies while taking a master's degree in Asian history, and has become an Orwellian scholar.

Her identity is a carefully protected enigma because this book is an indictment of the military dictatorship that has ...

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